Month: October 2013

Happy Halloween, everyone! Today, we’ve got two DVD reviews to get you into the Halloween spirit: John Carpenter’s classic Halloween (1978), now available in a 35th Anniversary Blu-Ray package from Anchor Bay, and John Hancock’s Let’s Scare […]

Weary Londoners Rick Fitzgerald (Ray Milland) and his sister, Pamela (Ruth Hussey), are hiking along the coast in Cornwall one day when they come across a glorious old mansion, Windward House. After chasing their wayward […]

Throughout the studio era of Hollywood, classic films were generally limited by the tight constraints of the Production Code. Married couples couldn’t share a bed, kisses were light pecks interspersed with completely unrelated, unsexy conversation, […]

Editor’s note: This review contains spoilers. About halfway into director Steve McQueen’s 12 Years A Slave there is a moment of profound serenity: the Louisiana bayou is seen on a stunning, bright day; wind rustles through […]

Kitty Foyle (Ginger Rogers)–a working-class girl born and raised in Philadelphia, where the lines between the classes are distinctly drawn and adhered to rigidly–does the unthinkable: she falls in love with a “Main Line” boy, […]

This post is part of The Retro Set’s Friday column The Retro Set Horror Corner, hosted by Meaghan Clohessy After a long year of waiting, another October is upon us, replete with its own filmic traditions. […]

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In recent months, the Criterion Collection has released two films from the 1980s that are about the art of storytelling. The first, Rob Reiner’s The Princess Bride (1987), is a beloved Hollywood classic, based on [...]

[This review was begun the same day as the Oct. 27, 2018 Tree of Life shooting.] They killed eleven Jews in Pittsburgh today, gunned down in their synagogue as they prayed round their holy scriptures. [...]

Gloria Grahame may not seem to fit alongside the women we typically feature in this column — she didn’t found her own company, become a director, break any particular barriers, or do significant philanthropic work. [...]

Link TV, the national independent non-commercial satellite television network, is premiering a new weekly international film series this Thursday called CINEMONDO that brings cinema from around the world to foreign movie fans.

The Bruno Walter Auditorium is home to the Silent Clowns Film Series, which boasts itself as “New York’s longest-running regularly scheduled silent film showcase.” For twenty years now, the series has provided the public with [...]

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